destructive competition

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Competition that forces several producers out of the market. Destructive competition usually occurs when there are so many producers of a product that prices are driven down to the point where no one makes a profit. It can also happen if a single producer is significantly wealthier than other producers and can afford to cut prices drastically until the other producers are driven out of business.

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Words nearby destructive competition

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How to use destructive competition in a sentence

“Competition is there, of course, but I think there is enough business for everyone as long as the demand is there,” he says.
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I am fighting that quota because I am an advocate of competition.
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Anger often manifests in withholders as another self-destructive but more socially acceptable feeling or behavior, like anxiety.
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It has a presence, it remains potentially destructive, but all we can do is attempt to marshal it.
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When companies faced competition, Klein knew, consumers would have options.
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Berlin was equally cut off from competition, for Berlin had to devote herself to the task of financing war for Germany.
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A tremendous tornado passed over the city of Natchez, very destructive to life and property.
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All prices, provided that competition is free, are made to appear as the necessary result of natural forces.
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A destructive tornado swept over a portion of Lapeer county, Michigan.
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He shows that under free individual competition there is a perpetual waste of energy.
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